First Impressions of LG's G2 Flagship Smartphone

After listening to detailed feedback from savvy and regular smartphone users, LG announced they created a new, slim, powerful phone with the longer battery life people were asking for. During the design phases, LG believed meeting those demands would only come through the use of an impressive chipset, combined with clever engineering to outshine the competition. Eventually, the finalized phone was named the G2, and it was unveiled on August 7, 2013.

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Should we call the Galaxy S4, S3s? Is Samsung following Apple's strategy?

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last two months, Samsung has announced its flagship Android phone for the current season, the Samsung Galaxy S4. For the vast majority of users, the phone is great and I can't disagree with them. But if you look at it from another perspective, compared to its ancestor, it isn't the upgrade I expected to be.

If we do a flashback, and go back to the commence of the series, the S1 was really an auspicious sign for a fresh new start for Samsung, despite Apple's claims that it was a copy of the iPhone 3Gs. From pretty much obscurity, the company went to once again international fame. One year after the company launches the S1’s successor, the S2. The phone offered a huge enhancement on both software and hardware. Moving on to the third generation, the biggest upgrades of all, the South Korean company mesmerized us all. The Samsung Galaxy S3 brought a whole new experience while interacting with your smartphone. The design was absolutely brilliant, incredibly thin, Touch Wiz was reinvented, and it contained tremendous tech specifications. I was looking in awe when I touched the phone for first time. In my humble opinion, the S3 was an impeccable phone.

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Fixing Your Flip Phone's Flip

Flip phones, or clamshell phones as they're sometimes known, have a lot of advantages. They might not be the top of the range super stylish phones like the ones that are currently on the market, but they do have some things going for them.

For a start, their battery life tends to be much longer. Because the screen on a flip phone is turned off when the phone is closed, and the screen is the big battery drainer on a phone, the battery on a clamshell lasts longer. Then they're compact, a flip phone is designed to fold to half its real size, making it easy to carry around. And they're notoriously robust.

Because the screen and keyboard of a clamshell are protected when the phone is closed, it makes them a great choice for people who are often outdoors or who work in dangerous places such as on construction sites.

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Ubuntu for Android

It's a high-end phone AND a desktop computer in one and it's coming soon to enhance your work and personal life. What you get is the ability to simply dock your phone and it will become a laptop or desktop computer.

With Ubuntu for Android you get the best of both - the worlds most popular open source mobile operating system running alongside the worlds most popular free desktop operating system. Neither operating system is watered-down or scaled-back, you get the full featured versions of both. This is Ubuntu and Android working side-by-side in harmony.

A docked Android for Ubuntu phone

How it Works

When you dock the phone Ubuntu will start-up. When you un-dock the phone Ubuntu will still store it's data, but all the processing power gets directed back to Android. You don't ever get a sluggish mobile experience caused by Ubuntu.

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5 Reasons to Save Information to Your SIM (Not Your Phone!)

If you lose, damage, or upgrade your smartphone, you could lose all of the information you have stored on it. One way to avoid this problem is to save your information to your SIM card instead. If you reuse your SIM card from your old phone, all of your information will automatically be on your new phone. There are many reasons why it's a wise choice to save your information to your SIM card instead of directly on your phone. Here are 5.

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